Sarah
was born in Massachusetts as Sarah Angelini and grew up in Northboro, a
small town in central Mass that later became the setting for her debut
novel.

At the
age of ten, she decided she wanted to be a writer. (Before that, she
wanted to be Wonder Woman, except with real flying ability instead of an
invisible jet. She also would have accepted a career as a unicorn
princess.) And she began writing fantasy stories.

She
attended Princeton University, where she spent four years studying
English, writing about dragons, and wondering what the campus gargoyles
would say if they could talk.

Sarah
lives in Stony Brook, New York, with her husband, her two children, and
her ill-mannered cat. She also has a miniature pet griffin named
Alfred. Okay, okay, that’s not quite true. His name is really
Montgomery.

In a desert
world of sandstorms and sand-wolves, a teen girl must defy the gods to
save her tribe in this mystical, atmospheric tale from the author of Drink, Slay, Love.Liyana
has trained her entire life to be the vessel of a goddess. The goddess
will inhabit Liyana’s body and use magic to bring rain to the desert.
But Liyana’s goddess never comes. Abandoned by her angry tribe, Liyana
expects to die in the desert. Until a boy walks out of the dust in
search of her.

Korbyn is a god inside his vessel, and a
trickster god at that. He tells Liyana that five other gods are missing,
and they set off across the desert in search of the other vessels. For
the desert tribes cannot survive without the magic of their gods. But
the journey is dangerous, even with a god’s help. And not everyone is
willing to believe the trickster god’s tale.

The closer she
grows to Korbyn, the less Liyana wants to disappear to make way for her
goddess. But she has no choice: She must die for her tribe to live.
Unless a trickster god can help her to trick fate—or a human girl can
muster some magic of her own.